Re: Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band – Trout Mask Replica (1969)

by Nightjar Wed Apr 17, 2024 7:08 pm

Fast and bulbous, Mascara Snake!

by **The Call of the Wendigo** Wed Apr 17, 2024 7:08 pm

Track 5 - Hair Pie: Bake 1.

by SiberianPrincess’sMidriff Wed Apr 17, 2024 7:09 pm

The Call of the Wendigo wrote:
Nightjar wrote:
Nightjar wrote:
Nightjar wrote:Beefheart had no concept of musicianship from a technical perspective.

He used to explain to his band members that he wanted a song to sound like a bat being dragged backwards through a puddle of oil.

The story behind the recording of this album is actually quite disturbing.

Reflects the music pretty accurately.

I'd always seen CB as a kind of eccentric, albeit manic, avuncular figure, but he was a lunatic and a tyrant and terrorised his band whilst they were all living in a shack in the Californian desert and taking copious amounts of acid.
Did he ever meet Frank Zappa?

This was produced by him.

And he was a bit dodgy with the control over the master tapes.

by SiberianPrincess’sMidriff Wed Apr 17, 2024 7:09 pm

Hair Pie: Bake 1

by Nightjar Wed Apr 17, 2024 7:09 pm

Nightjar wrote:
The Call of the Wendigo wrote:
Nightjar wrote:
Nightjar wrote:
Nightjar wrote:Beefheart had no concept of musicianship from a technical perspective.

He used to explain to his band members that he wanted a song to sound like a bat being dragged backwards through a puddle of oil.

The story behind the recording of this album is actually quite disturbing.

Reflects the music pretty accurately.

I'd always seen CB as a kind of eccentric, albeit manic, avuncular figure, but he was a lunatic and a tyrant and terrorised his band whilst they were all living in a shack in the Californian desert and taking copious amounts of acid.
Did he ever meet Frank Zappa?

Er...

SRSLY, is this some kind of joke?

by Butterfield Wed Apr 17, 2024 7:09 pm

The Call of the Wendigo wrote:
Nightjar wrote:
Nightjar wrote:
Nightjar wrote:Beefheart had no concept of musicianship from a technical perspective.

He used to explain to his band members that he wanted a song to sound like a bat being dragged backwards through a puddle of oil.

The story behind the recording of this album is actually quite disturbing.

Reflects the music pretty accurately.

I'd always seen CB as a kind of eccentric, albeit manic, avuncular figure, but he was a lunatic and a tyrant and terrorised his band whilst they were all living in a shack in the Californian desert and taking copious amounts of acid.
Did he ever meet Frank Zappa?

I always think Frank Zappa had something to do with this.

by Nightjar Wed Apr 17, 2024 7:10 pm

Only another 4 minutes to go.

by Butterfield Wed Apr 17, 2024 7:10 pm

Butterfield wrote:
The Call of the Wendigo wrote:
Nightjar wrote:
Nightjar wrote:
Nightjar wrote:Beefheart had no concept of musicianship from a technical perspective.

He used to explain to his band members that he wanted a song to sound like a bat being dragged backwards through a puddle of oil.

The story behind the recording of this album is actually quite disturbing.

Reflects the music pretty accurately.

I'd always seen CB as a kind of eccentric, albeit manic, avuncular figure, but he was a lunatic and a tyrant and terrorised his band whilst they were all living in a shack in the Californian desert and taking copious amounts of acid.
Did he ever meet Frank Zappa?

I always think Frank Zappa had something to do with this.

Oh, then I'd be right. bowtie

by SiberianPrincess’sMidriff Wed Apr 17, 2024 7:10 pm

Is this a flesh ~~oboe?~~ Horn?

by Nightjar Wed Apr 17, 2024 7:11 pm

SiberianPrincess’sMidriff wrote:
This was produced by him.

And he was a bit dodgy with the control over the master tapes.

I wonder how Bongo Fury would go down here?

by Nightjar Wed Apr 17, 2024 7:12 pm

The best tracks on that are "Carolina Hardcore Ecstasy" and "Man With the Woman Head".

by Butterfield Wed Apr 17, 2024 7:12 pm

This does sound like how I'd record a song if you gave me some random instruments.

by Nightjar Wed Apr 17, 2024 7:13 pm

Nightjar wrote:The best tracks on that are "Carolina Hardcore Ecstasy" and "Man With the Woman Head".

No, I meant "Sam With The Showing Scalp Flat Top". doh

by SiberianPrincess’sMidriff Wed Apr 17, 2024 7:13 pm

Talking bit.

by Nightjar Wed Apr 17, 2024 7:13 pm

Beefheart actually meeting some lost hippie souls who've wandered out into the desert?

by **The Call of the Wendigo** Wed Apr 17, 2024 7:13 pm

Track 6 - Moonlight on Vermont.

by Nightjar Wed Apr 17, 2024 7:14 pm

The 'hit'.

by Nightjar Wed Apr 17, 2024 7:14 pm

This album is better than I remember. yes

by SiberianPrincess’sMidriff Wed Apr 17, 2024 7:14 pm

Moonlight on Vermont

by Nightjar Wed Apr 17, 2024 7:15 pm

When I bought my ~~first~~ CD player back in about 1994 this was the first CD I bought. box

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